Office 2010 - Microsoft Outlook 2010 Overview
Microsoft® Outlook® offers premium business and personal e-mail management tools to the more than 500 million Microsoft Office users worldwide. With the release of Outlook 2010, you get a richer set of experiences to meet your communication needs at work, home and school.
From a redesigned look to advanced e-mail organization, search, communication and social networking features, Outlook 2010 provides you with a world-class experience to stay productive and in touch with your personal and business networks.
Manage multiple e-mail accounts from one place
- You can easily manage e-mail messages from multiple mailboxes. Synchronize multiple e-mail accounts from services such as Hotmail®, Gmail or just about any other provider to Outlook 2010. Improved connectivity with Microsoft Exchange Server supports the use and management of multiple Exchange Server e-mail accounts in one location.
Manage large volumes of e-mail with ease
- Conversation view in Outlook 2010 improves the tracking of e-mail conversations - reducing information overload. Entire conversations can be condensed and categorized into just a few conversations using the new Clean Up feature. The Ignore feature sends an entire conversation to your Deleted items.
Search to easily find what you’re looking for
- With Outlook 2010, you can easily sort through high volumes of data. The enhanced Search Tools provide you with ways to quickly find and manage large quantities of e-mail, calendar, task and contact items.
Create e-mail messages that capture attention
- Dynamic graphics and picture-editing tools are not just for Word and PowerPoint® anymore. With Outlook 2010, you can grab your readers’ attention by using compelling visuals such as prebuilt SmartArt® Graphics, Office themes and Styles. You also can more easily bring your ideas across to your readers by inserting and formatting screenshots in Outlook.
Stay connected to your social and business networks
- Outlook 2010 is your hub for friends, family and colleagues. Use Outlook Social Connector to get additional information about people, such as mutual friends and other social information, while staying better connected to your social and business circles.
Customize common tasks into single-click commands
- Create and save custom actions in a new way with Quick Steps in Outlook 2010. You can save time by creating and defining multistep tasks that you can execute with a single click, including reply and delete, move to a specific folder, create a new e-mail to assigned groups, and more.
Make scheduling a breeze
- Conveniently and efficiently schedule appointments, share your calendar availability, and manage your work schedule. With the E-mail Calendar feature, you can send your schedule to others so they can quickly find time for your next appointment. The new Schedule View provides a streamlined horizontal display of multiple calendars to help simplify your scheduling tasks. New calendar management tools enable you to save frequently used groups of calendars so they can be quickly redisplayed whenever you need them.
Ensure that your e-mail messages get to the intended audience
- For business users, sending unnecessary e-mail messages to out-of-office contacts, accidentally replying to a large distribution list or distributing confidential information outside the company are frequent concerns. The new MailTips feature alerts you when you are about to send e-mail to a large distribution list, to someone who is out of the office or outside the organization, and more.
Receive voice mail and faxes in your inbox
- With Outlook 2010 and new technology in Exchange Server 2010, you can have voice mail and faxes sent directly to your inbox, making them capable of being accessed from almost anywhere using your computer, Microsoft Outlook Mobile or Microsoft Outlook Web App.
Initiate live conversations from Outlook
- Keep in touch with your contacts. By using Microsoft Office Communicator or your instant messaging application, Outlook 2010 provides presence and status information for those on your contact list.3 Hover over names, see their availability and then easily initiate conversations directly through instant messaging. With Communicator, you can also start a voice call without leaving Outlook.
More information about Microsoft Office 2010 is available at http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010.
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